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Re: Adobe Acrobat ERA-type question Vaughn Wilson 20 Mar 1998 18:11 EST

Our office has put forms on our web page using Adobe Acrobat Exchange.  The PI
is able to fill out the form on the web page.  You may view our forms by going
to the web site www.mmc.edu.

Glenn Krell wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Here is a general interest ERA (electronic research administration)
> question.  One facet of ERA is that many of us download various agency
> forms from the web using Adobe Acrobat.
>
> Has anyone had any success making those pdf (portable document format)
> forms into "interactive" forms using Acrobat 3.01?  Note that that is the
> software you pay for, as opposed to the free software available at
> http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html  for reading and
> printing pdf files from websites (quite useful by the way).
>
> The problem we are having is: we download and print these agency pdf forms,
> and then have to use a typewriter to fill them out.  Has anyone made
> progress in this area? or is there a better method for doing this?
>
> Many thanks in advance!
> - Glenn Krell